Gregory Forth

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Rindi: an ethnographic study of a traditional domain in eastern Sumba. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague. January 1, 1981. ISBN   978-90-24-76169-2.
  • Space and Place in Eastern Indonesia. University of Kent at Canterbury, Centre of South-East Asian Studies. 1991.
  • Beneath the volcano. KITLV Press. 1998. ISBN   978-90-6718-120-4.
  • Dualism and hierarchy. Oxford University Press. 2001. ISBN   978-0-19-823424-1.
  • Nagé birds. Routledge. 2003. ISBN   978-0-415-31827-3.
  • Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective. Routledge. December 10, 2008. ISBN   978-0710313546.
  • Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird: Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People. University of Toronto Press. 2016. ISBN   978-1442650282.
  • A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2019. ISBN   978-0773557642.
  • Between Ape and Human: An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid. Pegasus Books. 2022. ISBN   978-1639361434.
  • Ritual and Ontogeny: Life Cycles Rites in an Eastern Indonesian Society. Carolina Academic Press. 2024. ISBN 978-1531027292. [13]

    • Articles and book chapters

    • Forth, Gregory. Blood, milk and coconuts: A study of intracultural ritual variation." Man (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute) 18 no. 4 (1984): 654-68.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Animals, Witches, and Wind: Eastern Indonesian Variations on the" Thunder Complex"." Anthropos(1989): 89-106.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Social and symbolic aspects of the witch among the Nage of eastern Indonesia." In C. W. Watson and R. F. Ellen, eds. Understanding witchcraft and sorcery in Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. Pp. 99-122. 1993.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Public affairs: institutionalized non-marital sex in an eastern Indonesian society." Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde (Royal Institute, Leiden) 160 (2004): 315-338.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Hominids, hairy hominoids and the science of humanity." Anthropology Today 21, no. 3 (2005): 13-17.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Separating the dead: the ritual transformation of affinal exchange in central Flores." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, no. 3 (2009): 557-574.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Symbolic classification: Retrospective remarks on an unrecognized invention." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 16 (2010): 707-725.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Cryptids, classification, and categories of cats: An ethnozoological study of unidentified felids from eastern Indonesia." Samantha Hurn, ed. Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Researching Encounters with Mysterious Creatures. London and New York: Routledge. Pp. 32-53. 2017.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Elderly People Growing Tails: The Constitution of a Non-empirical Idea. Current Anthropology." 15 (2018):397-414.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Living in Nage, or the Meaning of Life in an Eastern Indonesian Society." Oceania 88 (2018): 168-82.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Are legendary hominoids worth looking for? Views from ethnobiology and palaeoanthropology." Anthropology today 28, no. 2 (2012): 13-16.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Rites of passage." The international encyclopedia of anthropology (2018): 1-7.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Mountain Turtles and Giant Crabs: Cosmological Implications and Supernatural Understandings of Rare Creatures on an Eastern Indonesian Island." Anthrozoös 35 (2022): 495-513.
    • Forth, Gregory. "Making Fun of Animals: Ontological Implications of Rituals and Taboos Observed in Geographically and Linguistically Discontinuous Regions of Southeast Asia and Southwestern China." Oceania 92 (2022): 267–286. doi : 10.1002/ocea.5345
    • Forth, Gregory. "The Cooked Child: Urban Legends and Ancient Myths from the Malayo-Polynesian-Speaking World." Folklore 134 (2023): 323-343.
    • Forth, Gregory. "What ancient Taiwanese Negritos might tell us about mystery hominoids in Indonesia." Toby Openshaw and Dean Karalekas, eds. Seeking the Koko’ Ta’ay: Investigating the origins of little people myths in Taiwan and beyond, pp. 232-59. Leiden: Brill. 2024
    • Forth, Gregory. "Local knowledge of Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) in north-central Flores Island (Indonesia) and implications for conservation of the species." Pacific Conservation Biology 31 (2025): 1-15.

    References

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Curriculum Vitae: Gregory Forth" (PDF). Retrieved Jan 10, 2026.
    2. 1 2 "Gregory Forth". University of Alberta Department of Anthropology. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
    3. 1 2 3 4 5 Forth, Gregory (3 May 2022). Between Ape and Human. Pegasus Books. ISBN   9781639361434 . Retrieved 15 December 2022.
    4. 1 2 Corbey, Raymond (Winter 2009). "The folk zoology of Southeast Asian wildmen" (PDF). International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter. 52. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
    5. ↑ "Let it flow: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path wins 42nd Diagram Prize". The Bookseller. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
    6. ↑ Hamks, Micah (15 February 2023). "A Humanlike 'Living Fossil" Cold Still Be Alive In Indonesia, This Anthropologist Says". TheDebrief.org. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
    7. ↑ Ly, Laura. "Everything old is new again". Work of Arts. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
    8. ↑ https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/479347ae-f14d-47db-9660-9c90599a563e/content
    9. ↑ "Images of 'wildman' in Southeast Asia". Archived from the original on July 28, 2020.
    10. ↑ "Seminar by Prof. Gregory Forth on April 17th". Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
    11. ↑ "Faculty Awards by Recipient | Office of the Registrar". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
    12. ↑ "Past Award Winners | Research + Innovation". www.ualberta.ca. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
    13. ↑ Ritual and Ontogeny: Life Cycle Rites in an Eastern Indonesian Society (9781531027292). Authors: Gregory Forth. Carolina Academic Press.
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